separate discussion and development lists

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:36:09PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 06:49:58PM +0200, Adrian Knoth wrote:
>> Not sure if we're talking the same: currently, 17 (16 if you count 
>> the fixed gigedit package in experimental) contain 
>> debian-multimedia at lists.debian.org as the maintainer field.
>>
>> If I correctly understand the proposal, then this very address should 
>> be used for discussions with users.
>>
>> Hence, to avoid users being spammed by bug reports from the BTS, we 
>> need to change the maintainer fields in all those packages to 
>> pkg-mmm.
>
>Ahh, yes.  I perfectly agree here: debian-multimedia at lists.debian.org 
>should NOT be used as maintainer field but rather pkg-mmm should. 
>However, I'm not perfectly sure whether we should really push for a 
>move into testing if this is the only problem of the package.

I was skeptical to this earlier on.  I still do not think that I will be 
subscribing to a users' list myself, but if others will then I won't be 
in their way :-)


I agree that it makes good sense to reuse the existing list at l.d.o.

And I suggest to simply start using it: Those packages currently 
pointing there in maintainer field are not very active packages, so 
there is also little risk of them stirring much noise.  If some of those 
packages really should be dropped from Debian completely then let's try 
do that before the Squeeze release to avoid unnecessarily needing to 
maintain dead weight for a couple of years.  But for those packages we 
keep, let us not burden release-managers with adjusting maintainer 
field, but instead aim at updating that at the first point release (or, 
if we are quick, or the release process is slow, then drop an email to 
release managers emphasizing that it is low priority and we can wait 
till later if need be).


>Sorry for the confusion I might have caused

No problem (I dare say on behalf of the team): As always you are quite 
gentle :-)


Regards,

 - Jonas

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